Damian meets up with Chris while on tour with Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon on American’s birthday, July 4th in Denver! Backstage at the Summit Music Hall, the two talk openly about depression, creativity and recharging your batteries before the two talk about Chris’s partnerships with Bomb The Music Industry’s Jeff Rosenstock! We even get a few hints about Chris’s upcoming album! All of this and more in this week’s podcast adventure!

Mostly Harmless has teamed up with Ratio Beerworks, Soda Jerk Presents and 8 Houses Down for The Ratio Sessions. The Ratio Sessions are a slightly different spin on the Npr Tiny Desk sessions, Daytrotter or Punks In Vegas acoustic video sessions. We took the idea of intimate acoustic performances and decided to invite all our friends out to enjoy in the fun. It’s a great cross between an in-store appearance, meet and greet & a video series. Plus it’s a fun excuse to do some pre-show day drinking.

This episode is brought to you by Ratio Beerworks, who were on hand during the event pouring their beers Repeater & Domestica!

In this month’s live episode, Damian and the gang get weird and awkward while discussing first dates, bad dates and have fun talking about the perils of dating. The talk is followed by a short game of Mad Libs! This live event features stand up by Cody Spyker and features a rocking set from The Windermeres!

DAVID WILLIAMS, the author/photographer of the New York Times Bestselling book, Men with Cats is the guest on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast! This was a LIVE recording of a Q&A hosted at the Tatter Cover in Denver!

I first became familiar with David and his work through our hundred thousand mutual friends! I had become a big fan of the music video David directed for the band Sleeping Weather, not to mention his most excellent portrait work! Even better, David and I had previously been published together a few years earlier in New Noise Magazine issue #2! My interview with the Fort Collins band ELWAY was accompanied by David’s photo of the band for the article!

Right around Thanksgiving, I finally met David in real life at Mutiny information cafe in Denver. His brother’s band Caskitt was in town playing a show and David and his whole family were in attendance. I introduced myself, mentioned that I occasionally hosted live events and that if he was interested in a Men with Cats book release party and Q&A I’d love to host it and help set it up and pretty much the rest was history!

Music from today’s episode includes the tracks, “Friday Night Lightwieghts” from Caskitt and their 2015 release, This Machine Kills Sadness; as well as the track. “I’ll find a way,” by Sleeping Weather from their split 7″ with Placeholder. Watch the David Williams directed video for “I’ll Find a Way,” at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QnB22Kv-8

It’s not everyday you get to sit back and chat with some of your all time favorite comic book creators and talk about their craft, but that’s what I got to do at DINK! I hosted the Process of Historical Comics & Their Icons (short for Biographical Comics)and chat with some of my current favorite comic creators; Box Brown (Andre the Giant), Nate Powell (March), Ben Towle (Oyster War) & Joel Christian Gill (Strange Fruit). We talk to the creators about how their subjects found them, their academics careers & more in this short Dink panel!

Stay tuned for more one on one interviews and panel coverage from DINK!

Hey all! So I got a random phone call from my friend, Kevin Hulse aka HeadAboveHeart photography last Sunday morning. It seems he had a media badge for Denver’s Walker Stalker fan convention! The pass granted interviews, but Kevin didn’t have anyone to do those interviews with him! I was of course super hungover from the night before of running a show at Illegal Pete’s and not prepared, so what else is new! I grabbed my tape recorder, drank a few bloody marys and headed out to the National Western Stockade where they were hosting this fan event. We headed down and I got a chance to harass John Carroll Lynch from American Horror Story & Fargo! Zach Galligan from GREMLINS! IronE Singleton from The Walking Dead & The Blindside! As well as the very lovely and charming Madison Lintz from The Walking Dead and Bosch.

DINK, Denver’s Independent Comic And Art Expo was a blast. Stay tuned for coverage from the event in the coming weeks! Can’t wait to help make next year even better! I’ve also been approved for Denver Comic Con press pass for later this year. We’ll be hosting a ton of panels as well! Keep an eye out for that and make sure you sign up for the mailing list for more info!

I am also one of the producers of the Ratio Sessions at Ratio Beerworks. The idea was to combine the acoustic vibe and feel of video series’s such as Punk In Vegas & NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, but instead of keeping these performances private; we’re inviting all of our friends to come along!

In this month’s live episode, Damian drinks too much while the gang discuss their embarrassing & empowering stories of growing up in the Nerd culture! Then how they took their love of nerd culture and found success and happiness in their lives!

The boys in Allout Helter have been around for over 8 years, slowly plugging away at becoming one of the most hardworking bands in the Colorado music scene. That hard work has been paying off with the band pulling opening slots on Denver’s Riot Fest, and allowing the bands to open shows for The Bouncing Souls, Propaghandi, Alkaline Trio and oh so many more! Next weekend, March 31st & April 1st & 2nd sees the band traveling to Florida to open up a string of dates for the hugely influential Chicago band, 88 Fingers Louie! (Who were guests on Mostly Harmless episodes 115 & 116!)

We talk to Allout Helter about their upcoming shows with 88 Fingers Louie, but we also take the time to chat about how the band’s hard work paying off for them. How the band has worked themselves into the position to be one of the number one bands in Denver! We talk about the importance of Work Ethics, Not being a dick and never breaking up! We chat about all of this and more in today’s chat!

JEFF PEZZATI lead singer of NAKED RAYGUN, THE BOMB and member of BIG BLACK is on this week’s Mostly Harmless Podcast! What?! What?!

Jeff Pezzati joins us from Cobra Lounge to chat about his life in Naked Raygun, their new album and the band’s legacy. We also chat with Jeff and his wife Kristen about their health, living in the country and oh so much more!

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You may know Damian as one of the Managers at The Black Sheep in Colorado Springs, Colorado. You might know him as the Former booking agent for The Triple Nickel Tavern in Colo Springs. Or maybe you've met him on the road, where he has Traveled with Drag The River, Two Cow Garage, Michael Dean Damron, Austin Lucas, Harrison Bergeron and The Rightaways.